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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
